The Golden Record Film

About the film

The Golden Record: The Film tracks each of the 27 tracks of music that were selected for the Golden Record, launched aboard NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft 1 and 2 in 1977. 40 years later, back here on Earth, the film will be the first cinematic rendition of the Record, showcasing the 27 recorded tracks as live performances by musicians from the corners of the world that are home to these songs. We hope the film will demonstrate how crucial it is to invest in and preserve our most fundamental forms of expression that unify us as a global human race. We hope this film will serve as the cinematic, contemporary partner to the Golden Record, which has been recently released for purchase through Ozma Records.

The regions, the songs, the people

Mizuno Kohmei, President of the Chikumeisha Guild for Shakuhachi and former student of original Golden Record performer and Japanese national treasure Yamaguchi Goro

Dr. Yang Chunwei, master qin player and professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Professor Chou of Columbia University, original member of the selection committee, selecting the Chinese qin song “Flowing Waters” by Kuan P'ing-hu.

Tony Redhouse, spiritual healer and member of the Navajo.

On the tracks of Indian Hindustani music

Valya Balkanska, the original voice of the Bulgarian classic “Izlel Je Delyo Haydutin” on the Record.

The 27 songs were selected as “musical representatives” of our civilization, but what can we say we know about them? To explore this question, we will seek out the artists who today continue the legacy of these musical traditions. El Jinete Films will travel to each country represented on the Record in order to capture the musical traditions of the Record as they exist today.

The United States: The music of the blues, Navajo traditional music, jazz and rock n' roll.

Latin America: traditional music of Peru and Mexico

Classical Europe: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky

Eastern Europe and Eurasia: traditional and folk music of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Bulgaria

The UK: Instrumental music from the Renaissance age

Africa: traditional music from Benin and the DRC

East and Southeast Asia: traditional and folk music from China, Japan, Indonesia and India

Oceania: music from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and aborigine Australian lands